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Monday, June 10, 2013

Potential Economies continued some more

The summary conclusion of chapter 4 has this excerpt of interest, since it
reminds me of kennilingus narcissistic revelations of truth validation within
its direct and present experience of the transcendent Causal*:

"The truth, which is revealed by the event, therefore results in an
exclusionary mechanism whereby those enlightened by the truth stand opposite
those who are still bound to the knowledge of the State ....one gets the
impression that, despite the constant reminder that the event is open to all,
those who partook in an event and maintain fidelity to an event, form a sacred
club elevated above those who have not experienced this aleatory phenomenon.
This reliance on the event produces a conservatism whereby all actions and
visions of the future must ascribe to the truth revealed by the event"
(194).

* Note how it differs from several sources, including this one, that the
ontic virtual is withdrawn, in excess of and inaccessible in totality
from present awareness of any kind, nirvana included. And
completely immanent.

The following is from the summary conclusion to chapter 5. Therein
experimentation with “resources at hand” is what leads to the excess expressing
as novelty, not some transcendent patterns or forms waiting to be uncovered.
This goes as well for immanent categories or patterns we create, for they too
cannot conceive of what is in excess of them; conditions on the ground often
exceed their definitions or boundaries. And yet if we allow for this excess we
don’t get as committed to our restricted economies of the moment, open to new
possibilities just around the bend. I’m yet again reminded of Bryant’s latent
capacities within a machine’s substance that are actualized depending on
changing and contingent exo-relational circumstances.

“The aim of a philosophy of experimentation was therefore to empower thought
to bring about novel ways of seeing the world, rather than waiting for an event
to reveal to us which possibilities should be pursued. I argued that the
process of experimentation brings forth new potentialities which remain latent
within a complex system. This is done by the actions of individuals
experimenting with the resources they have at hand in contrast to grand scale
schemes to overthrow the current system. The realization of these latencies
leads to a definition of novelty as that which disrupts our economies of
thought and forces us to reread the history of the complex system we were
facing” (234).